Just got into duck hunting about 3 years ago and i'm still waiting for my first band. Can't wait!!!!

32 years. 1 band. Last year.
Hang in there....

I have two, both woodies. The last one I killed while taking my wife's cousin for his first duck hunt. We sat on a beaver pond, that is about a mile walk, for three hours. We seen some come and go but not close enough to shoot. It's about a 60 acre pond.
When we got ready to leave he wanted to shoot and just see what would get off the water. He fired one shot and three woodies got up about 150 yards away and started flying straight at us. when they got close enough I dropped the one on the right and dropped the one on the left. Mine was banded. Talk about dumb luck right.

This is my 3rd season and i got one during my first Teal season.

I got my first band last year on the first Specklebelly I ever shot. It was a bonus bird, as we were out crane hunting that morning. Now, if I could ever get the taxidermists to finish it...

I don't know how many but I am guessing in the 20s. I always gave them away or had them taken away. I shot a double on two geese and both were banded with $100 reward bands. It was a video shoot and I waas a guest that did not have to pay to hunt. We hammered the snot out of the geese but the guides took my bands. I just didn't feel right about creating a stink. The others were givin to the customers when I was doing guide service. That just aint for me anymore, believe me it gets old. I have one that is cherished. It was a banded woodroe killed on the ranch I am going to this weekend. It was just me and bull hunting and he dove under water for about 20 seconds to get the bird. So nopbody could throw a hissy about that band.

Zero. Been busting ducks for dang near 14 years.... I have yet to kill a banded bird. I haven't missed a season. Killed more birds than I could count but not one banded.

18 years of duck hunting, 3 bands the last five years. Wood duck in Athens, Teal in Gueydon,La., and a Mallard in Ok last year. Me and my group kill 300-460 ducks per year and have 5 bands between us all the last 5 years. Its not easy.

1 band - GWT Drake - Kansas - in my 4th season (current season).

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This is my tenth duck hunting season and no band. My best friend started duck hunting last year and I took him out new years day, sure enough he shoots a banded gwt. A few weeks earlier I took a father and his son out on a hunt and the little terd shot a banded hen mallard. One day....

1 mallard, 2 specks and 1 canada. The Canada had the orange neck band also.

I shot my first banded duck on opening day this year, a gadwall hen. Most of the numbers were worn off, so i sent it in for possible ID. I have now shot a banded alligator, turkey, and duck.

I've killed over 2000 ducks, and only one band. Greenhead in a Se AR rice field.

Dad's been hunting 25 years and only has two. Had a twenty year dry spell in the middle.

this is my 11th season, and no bands yet......

2 canadas and 1 speck, seen a couple banded ducks killed but not one of my own yet.

8 ducks seasons and not one band nor have I been on a hunt where a band was taken.

0 Nothing yet. I might help if I killed more of what I shoot at

5 bands. All mallards.

1 banded pintail in my first "real" season (this season)

shot lots of birds in louisiana and texas this year got no bands

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2 bands. one off a mottled duck on the coast and one off a ross goose that was 9, on the coast. my brother once got a specklebelly that was 11 years old and had a big dent in it from the bb.

In 20 years of hunting ducks and geese! I have:

5-Woodduck bands
4-Pintail
12-Mallard 3 shot this year!
1-Canvasback
15-Snow geese
22-Canadian geese

And still have snow goose season coming up!!! FEB 1

By the way I live in Arkansas and hunt around stuttgart Arkansas!

1 band this year off a mallard.